The dangers from holding a conviction based on how you feel are clear. Our feelings shift. They depend on our age, our experience, where we live (which country, which class, which ethnicity, which sex), our mood. You understand why in the 70s and the 80s that cultural war took place in academia about theory. It was no longer enough to just react viscerally to Shakespeare or Proust because you were just using your own limited viscera; you had to filter your thoughts through Marxism or Feminism or any other ism as a safeguarding action. That was seen as a left wing act. You did not trust your own self.
These days, curiously, the people who trust their own feelings above exterior structures are seen as so-called ‘woke’ and left wing. They feel that they are not male, that they are female. They go on viscera. The argument from how you feel wins out over all others. A little humility might tell us that the human vessel is adrift on a tumultuous deep ocean of culture and it can shift direction at any moment.
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